How to apply for physical disability

derry

Being the wrong side of fivety the back is getting worse mostly from doing the laboring building sites England and mainland Europe etc

Turns out the family has a gene for Rheumatic something or other and this will make the back go badder and badder over time
Recently The other family bad bug bit and I got the start of type 2 diabetes

Am presently unemployed and often before they hassle me back to get some work where after a few weeks the back goes and as the work is agency temporary I get the chop and the cycle repeats itself.

Lucky I have family here so I am not in a very bad way financially but its a drag on my family this constant cycle and in these cooler economic times they are being affected with the slowing economy so getting a good solution would help all concerned

I have got the medical card (thats a whole other story )and am 6 months now on the waiting list to see the specialist back doctor resident in the local hospital in maybe one year if I am lucky maybe two years who knows ???

So without getting too into my own details I just want to know how I go about getting disability temporary or perminant as apposed to unemployment benefits as the stuff on line seems to be quite vauque and seems to be quite some hoops to go through even if its obvious like you lost a leg never mind saying the back is a bit dicky

Also How often would I have to be re-attend the doctor like once every year month whatever to confirm I didn't grow a new leg and am still disabled

Also can I under the new rules where there is a medical delay attend a doctor abroad to speed up the claim as one time when I pulled my back in France the specialist saw me within days( French medical system is brill ) and has my records there and can confirm my history since early 90s

Any practical advice like forget it or hell will freeze over first or the process takes ten years whatever will all help with giving me possibilities to plan

I really don't want to discuss possible cures remedies and so forth as I am up to to speed on all information for that subject ( suppling links to cures medicines is acceptable )and its fairly certain with todays medical solutions that some time within twenty years I wont be walking but between then and now I will be fairly fully fit for run of the mill walking for months and semi disabled for several weeks unable to walk far and carry shopping

Derry